Demos for Chapter 3 Available

I just uploaded the source code for the demos of the third chapter of our book. The demos are currently available only on the CVS repository. We’ll try to offer zip archives by the time the book is published. In the meantime, you’ll have to deal with CVS, which will help you get new demos as we publish them.

Thanks for the bug report. This demo, like many demos in the book, was intended to show a specific technique or piece of data. In this case, the intent was to show, in code, why both honoring the clip and using copyArea are useful for performance reasons. So I’m not shocked that it doesn’t handle random application occurrences because, well, I thought the app was sufficient dull and single-purposed enough that nobody would be looking for that extra app functionality.

Having said that, it seems reasonable to add in the extra capabilities when I get around to it (lots of other things are higher on the queue, like finishing the book and posting the rest of the demos and book info on the various sites…)